Altofts: Cyclist dies after falling off bike
Officers are keen to speak to anyone who saw the events leading up to this incident or the incident itself
Roads policing officers are appealing for witnesses after an elderly man died after coming off his bike in Altofts.
Officers were called at 11.55am yesterday (July 24) to a report a cyclist on Lock Lane had fallen from his electric assisted pedal cycle.
The cyclist, a man in his 80s, died at the scene.
Officers are keen to speak to anyone who saw the events leading up to this incident or the incident itself.
The bicycle is described as a green Trek EAPC and the man was travelling on Lock Lane near to the Aire and Calder Navigation, away from Altofts towards Castleford.
If anyone has any information that could assist us in our ongoing enquiries into this incident, they are asked to contact the Roads Policing Unit via: www.westyorkshire.police.uk/livechat or by calling 101, quoting log 667 of 24 July